Pruning and grafting knife



(No Model) A. MoNULTY. PRUNING AND GRAFTING- KNIFE.

No. 584,396. Patented June 15, 1897.

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ALEXANDER MONULTY, OF SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT.

PRUNING AND GRAFTING KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,396, dated June 15,1897.

Application filed March 12, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER MONULTY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Simsbury, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inPruning and Grafting Knives, of which the following is a description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is aside view of a tool embodying said improvement. Fig. 2 is a view of theback of the tool. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View of the blade of thetool on the plane denoted by the dotted line a: 00 of Fig.

The object of the improvement is the production of a knife speciallyadapted to the operations of grafting, pruning, and the like.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a denotes the curved blade ofthe tool, which is brought to a suitable edge. The letter 19' denotesthe handle of the tool attached to and upon the tang of the blade. Theletter odenotes a chisel whose edge is crosswise 0f the edge of theblade. It is attached upon the back of the blade and in practice is madea part thereof. Although this combination of parts is adapted to varioususes, it has a special use in the operation of grafting.

After Serial No. 627,193. (No model.)

a small limb has been sawed off in the grafting operation then the limbcan be split for the insertion of the graft by the use of the blade.Then the chisel can be inserted in the split, effecting a double purposein that the whole tool is securely held meanwhile to give the operatorthe use of both his hands, which he often needs very badly when amongthe branches of a tree, at the same time the split is held open for theinsertion of the graft. The location of the chisel is near the center ofthe length of the whole tool in order that the weight of the tool may beabout balanced thereon, a condition which helps to hold the toolsecurely without danger of falling and which also keeps the tool fromexerting any lever-like action to pry the split apart unduly.

I claim as my improvement The combination of the curved blade, thehandle and the chisel set crosswise of the blade upon the back of thetool and approximately at the middle of the length thereof, allsubstantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

ALEXANDER MONULTY.

Witnesses:

AARON S. CHAPMAN, E. W. ROYCE.

